Mike Halford

I think I know where this is going, but I'll allow you to work it along here.

Is there a clear cut winner?

Yeah, the plan changes all the time.

Also, wildly accurate.

Yeah.

So that's very depressing.

I'm putting it all together in my mind grapes.

It's not great.

It's not great that that's out there.

Okay, so the big picture takeaway.

The big picture takeaways are good people and nice guys is what I got from that.

Big picture takeaway from this.

You got to understand something out there in listener land.

The NHL, compared to the other major leagues in North America,

It's a pretty small league.

And by that, I mean, it's a fairly tight circle of people that are of influence and drive decisions and are the sort of quote-unquote power players.

There's a particular reason why a lot of the hires in the executive level or the coaching level or the president of hockey ops, you hear the recycling program and the retreads and it's, I played college with this guy.

We were roommates in junior with that guy.

It's very insular, right?

It's hard for outsiders to break in, which makes reports and articles like that even more damning.